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When comparing Tup vs Premake, the Slant community recommends Premake for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source build systems for C/C++?” Premake is ranked 4th while Tup is ranked 5th.
Specs
PlatformsWindows, Linux, Mac
PlatformsWindows, Linux, Mac
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Pros
Pro Speed
It is very fast.
Pro Tidy
It will automatically clean-up old files.
Pro General
Not bound to C/C++.
Pro Lua
Tup supports writing build definitions using Lua or Tupfiles.
Pro Cross platform
Supports Linux, OSX, and Windows.
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Cons
Con Variants not working on Windows
The solution for having different build configuration (think Release/Debug) is broken on Windows.
Con Cannot incrementally modify or delete files
Cannot incrementally modify files (e.g. LaTeX PDF, VISing and LIGHTing Quake maps, which takes the same BSP file as input and output), and will not delete files (e.g. rm build/*.o).
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